Current Projects

Lydia’s Golden Treasury

At the rate things are going I should have chapter 2’s first draft finished in June. The editing sessions should start again after that and I should have a good workflow established again.

Artorius and Remnants

Right now I’m in the most boring phase of both of these projects: Plotting. It’s going to be easier with Artorius since I already have the general story and events figured out, it’s just filling in the details, figuring out which characters need the most focus, what the story is really all about at its core, etc.

Remnants is trickier because it’s based on some loose ideas and isn’t quite the adaptation that Artorius is. I did figure out something important, though; the hierarchy of entities this setting and its characters are bound to. While it’s not the focus of the main Remnants story I’m working on, there’s a lot I can do with this setting in the future just based on that hierarchy alone.

I hate to be vague but I don’t like getting into specifics this early. It’s just not a good idea.

The Last Command

I was going to start Dune in June, but I’ve got an overwhelming urge to read The Last Command. Dark Force Rising does a really good job of psyching you up for the next entry, even if you’ve ready both previously.

So even though I don’t normally do it like this, I’ll be reading The Last Command next and then Dune in July. No idea after that. I’ve still got some searching to do.

Space Engineers

If I can’t figure out a good look for the Cosmo Messer thumbnail in a few days, I’ll just make a placeholder. I’ve been held back long enough and that upload needs to get done so I can really start focusing on other things.

Also, the Admiral Hipper’s very close to finished. I just have streamline some things, finally settle on what ships the Hipper is and isn’t going to run, and finish programming all the cockpits with the relevant functions. It’s a lot, but if I knew exactly what I was doing I could knock it all out in about six hours.

Since I don’t know what I’m doing, it’ll take considerably longer than that. Probably a few more weeks. That said, I’m tempted to start working on one of the sister ships. Making major hull and layout changes always helped me get insight into prior designs, so it’s not a bad idea for trying to improve the Hipper. It’s just a bit risky since, like with the Cosmo Messer, the more you fiddle with the design, the more you wind up wanting to make broader and bigger changes. It gets out of hand really quickly.

As a general rule, once I start on a sister ship, I’ll make a rule to not make anymore layout changes to the original. Moving furniture around or rearranging a room is one thing. Moving large components around is basically a refit. No refits.

Closing

That should be it for now. I’ll do a follow up to this post if something else comes to mind.